Ankit Shah

“When we are caught up in likes and dislikes, in strong opinions and rigid habits, we cannot work at our best, and we cannot know real security either. We live at the mercy of external circumstances: if things go our way, we get elated; if things do not go our way, we get depressed. It is only the mature person – the man or woman who is not conditioned by compulsive likes and dislikes, habits and opinions – who is really free in life. Such people are truly spontaneous. They can see issues clearly rather than through the distorting medium of strong opinions, and they can respond to people as they are and not as they imagine them to be.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook: A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram and Calming Your Mind

“Live only for yourself and you will never grow; live for the welfare of all those around you and you will grow to your full stature.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook: A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram and Calming Your Mind

“If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, "why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook

“People say that modern life has grown so complicated, so busy, so crowded that we have to hurry even to survive. We need not accept that idea. It is quite possible to live in the midst of a highly developed technological society and keep an easy, relaxed pace while doing a lot of hard work. We have a choice.”
― Eknath Easwaran, Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life